When you finally, finally get to the Friday of a difficult week, it’s important to hold tiny victories dear. Let’s close this damn week with a “win.” It hasn’t taken quite as long as The Hundred Years War, and we’re certainly not celebrating the actual event described, but the Tweet below represents a tiny victory in… Read More Victory Declared in Contest of “Crash” Not “Accident”
BB’s periodic review via IPRA of crash reports and investigations in cases of pedestrian fatalities has one generally constant legal theme. It goes something like this: Reflecting the consistency of this theme, I was going to write this morning about “No pedestrian shall cross between adjacent intersections…,” even when that “not a crosswalk” (Conchas St.)… Read More ABQ’s Ambiguous Traffic Code Encourages Victim Blaming
The key to happy transportation safety advocacy is to have a very long life. Of course, safety and staying alive go hand-in-glove, but I instead refer here to longevity in terms of how damn long roadway improvements often take. Take 12th and Menaul for instance. The Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) has in the… Read More Roundabout Letdown at 12th and Menaul
Editor’s Note: Better Burque today starts a new weekend posting tradition dedicated to things other than roadway safety and MUTCD-compliant temporary construction signage. Author Emily Esterson kicks things off with our first edition of “Breadder Burque,” an episodic personal memoir of a life increasingly, gloriously, spent baking bread. Baking is not a new obsession for… Read More Breadder Burque Chapter 1: The First Rise
By Scot Key Our last post made mention that the full extent of driver speed investigation in many cases of pedestrian fatalities consists solely of police officers asking the driver how fast they were going. Such was the case in the 2019 incident that killed Layla Zaragoza. A close review of crash and supplemental investigation… Read More Asking Drivers “How Fast Were You Going?” The Case of Angelica Baca
A huge obstacle in fulfilling the “Vision Zero” pledge signed by Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller in May of 2019 continues to be gaps and victim blaming biases in our fatal/injury crash reporting and investigations. To reduce the number of those killed on our roadways we need solid understanding and data into what is causing these… Read More Vision Zero v. Simple Victim Blaming: The Case of Layla Zaragoza
